Death of a Cosmonaut - Soyuz 1 - Vladimir Komarov

[gammondog]

This is why it is important to do your job and do it right.No cutting corners! That poor fellow was killed by someone else's incompetence.I'm glad that most of our exploration of outer space is done with unmaned probes. What a cruel death knowing that nobody can save you as you hurl towards the earth locked up in a metal can.

[mrjoe968]

poor russian :(



[jonhriz]

Its pretty well known the space program is a brotherhood. Even in the darkest days of the Cold War, NASA and American astronauts had nothing but respect for the Soviet space program and cosmonauts, and vice versa. The US even put a plaque on the moon with fallen astronauts AND cosmonauts. I dont care what country youre from, what god you believe (or not)in, what your political affiliation is, if you have the nerves and nuts to to go into space, youre getting respect.

[iRoute66]

@jonhriz

!

And national borders shouldnt matter at all if its about exploring and discovering the space..

[jonhriz]

@iRoute66

I think youre confusing mutual respect among a small, elite corps of individuals with the broader aims and goals of an entire autonomous nation. But youre right, thats why Grant forced Lee into humiliating submission...O, wait....

[iRoute66]

@jonhriz No I was agreeing with you, and just added that in my opinion the whole space-thing has a completely different priority than politics or whatever is bothering the world right now...........................­...And the "elite corps" youre talking about couldnt have gone to space if there weren thousands of scientists etc. who made it possible...

Exploring new techniques etc...can open completely new possibilities to humankind...

[aj0446]

thanks for the vid

[cvant]

There are some other things which I hear, but they are too noisy/too unreliable. In the second garbled segment the emotional state of the speaker suddenly changes at 1:20 with no transition (the tone of voice just changes), and additionally I could make out words "did you hear", "position", "control". But they are too faint, so I just include them in case some other Russian speaker wants to confirm this.

I mean apart from the ones which have posted in the comments section earlier than me.

[MartianStories]

Pretty chilly stuff.

RIP Vladimir. And curse any government that sends a pilot up in a spacecraft that the pilot, and his backup, insist is unsafe and unready for flight.

Games without frontiers. Sacrificial heroes.

Space should be for The People. Not political stupidities. We have too much of that down here already.

May there never be another Cold War.

And may Space become Mankind's Great Haven from the foolishness of Earthly waste.

[98vanguard]

did they find his body?

[LeGigify]

@98vanguard There wouldn't have been anything left.

[spottydog4477]

@LeGigify at 1.45 - thats his body

[OptimalElement]

@98vanguard

1:45 is his body?

[spottydog4477]

@OptimalElement yeah.....grizzly death

[luffyduffy7817]

Vladimir Komarov was such a hero :( Can someone translate the audio at 0:49?

[xxbdn144xx]

i have to watch this for school, bad ed. system

[Ronaldopopkings]

RIP , a selfless sacrifice for mankind.

[TERENCE896]

To climb the highest mountains is always to risk death but the climb must be attempted eventually made. Terence George Craddock



[Marlever357]

God Speed Cosmonaut Komarov.RIP.

[argentina1986diego]

1:46 what is that?!?

[Frankeinstein127]

@argentina1986diego burned dead body i thank

[argentina1986diego]

@Frankeinstein127 SO SMALL?!?!?!? well it melted!

[0172shane]

RIP

He's a hero for everyone and all nation on earth.

[Shirayuki619xYuuki]

RIP

[TIMPANIMAN1]

Komarov was a brave, brave man.

[deimos2k6]

this gives me creeps! r.i.p.

[Zelcius15]

He is a brave man..he saved Yuri's Life.

[MrWoodywoodward27]

I'd be pissed too

[LegionnaireEtrangere]

пухом товарищ Комаров

[wtfwitness]

Nothing about truth! Listened to the voice record, and some of the words was like from TV show about cosmonaut... xD

Believe me, I'm from Russia and know well this kind of voice from old xUSSR TV/Radio program commentators. Second "rage" voice, can't hear anything because of total distortion of sound.

Anyway RIP Vladimir

[wtfwitness]

Here's is the real last words but in russian

youtube.com/watch?v=3O0S8GuDIi­0

[lakshmere]

Another proof why politics and technology doesn't go well together. See nuclear energy.

[deloreandmc88]

RIP Both This Vladimir and Battlefield 3 Vladimir

[UnrealUnitedTV]

Apolla 18 brouth me here

[lilnhixx]

@UnrealUnitedTV nice one

[jjfjkfjk]

Rest in peace :' (

[bond00777777]

RIP Volodya the best astronaut from USSR cosmos programs

[jonvrix]

YOU ARE MY HERO

RIP VLADIMIR KOMAROV

[MegaGabriella101]

He Know The Spaceship is not in good condition,but he dont want yurin gagarin his backup to face the doom instead he proceed with the mission. At least thats what i heard and read.

[Rostokouban]

RIP Tovaritch

[JMChladek]

@40390576 The main reference comes from the book "Soyuz, A Universal Spacecraft" by Rex Hall and David Shayler. I believe a small mention of it in the book "Salyut" by Grujica Ivanovich as well. I suppose I shouldn't have said "spray insulation" necessarily as it doesn't seem to be sprayed. But some heat shield material supposedly did get where it wasn't supposed to when applied and gummed up the works a bit. The chute compartment was also redesigned after the flight and enlarged a little.

[SniperFallen06]

SOVIETS CAMAREDS COME WITH YOU!

[90Sokol90]

Brave mans, both Gagarin and Komarov, requiem for them.

[Bjgemini524]

Huh... it didn't matter he was Soviet, he still gave his life to save his friend. That's bravery. :)

[SwordPengy8]

RIP vladimir :(

[USMartyrMachine119]

So what exactly happened to him?

[JMChladek]

@USMartyrMachine119 The main chute of his spacecraft got jammed (chute compartment was too tight from spray insulation applied during construction). He fired the backup chute and it got tangled in the drogue parachute (which didn't release because the main chute didn't come out). So the descent module hit the ground at a fatal velocity. The braking rockets designed to fire near touchdown started a fire and cooked the remains of the capsule and Komarov's body before recovery forces arrived.

[USMartyrMachine119]

@JMChladek .....Godspeed.

[dave55811]

1:46

Damnation! o_o To think that could've been Yuri Gagarin....

[orriblebob]

There was a TV series called Red star in orbit. it was all about the Russian space programme.

In one episode they took you in a hanger and showed you the Russian version of the lunar module, it was very similar to the American one.

The problem was, the Russians didn't have a reliable rocket to lauch it with, the Vostok was outdated and unreliable, whereas the Americans had the Saturn 5 rocket, it was proven and reliable.

Thats why they got to the moon........and the Russians didn't

[bombarderoazul]

Some say komarov went ahead with the mission because he knew if he didn't do it, then gagarin would have flown instead. At this time they were best friends.

[hel1nas]

Great vid thanks for sharing! It is well known that Kamarov was not sure if he will return.

[1Nekit1]

Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket!

[TheEPCpwn]

360demon shut up about Russia because our great country isnt much different if not worse than theirs!!!

[lickmesideways1]

R I P

[rockdelpesado]

According with "Starman" documentary, about Gagarin's hidden life, technicians know about the failures in the capsule days or even weeks before lunch.

But politically was impossible to stop the rocket's take off.

Gagarin received a list of the ship problem from technicians, and sent to high rack government people; the letter banished.

Again, according with the documentary, Komarov was crying indeed; his wife was taken to mission control to said good bye.

[360deeman]

Is it just me or was the Soviet government a bunch of Assholes? It's like they thought humans were just puppets to play with and experiment with.

[Camerameister]

@360deeman No, it's just you.

If they just wanted to experiment on people they would have picked ones of lower intelligence than Komarov.

[fett2k]

@360deeman ur from US, right? :P

[jgrab1]

@MichelAlioscha I didn't know you were a Cosmonaut. You must be, because you know so much about how they think and what they do while they're up there. I'm impressed. I've looked through all the history books but I can't find your name. What mission(s) did you fly? Please tell us so we can be impressed.

[MrHoot1980]

Horrible way to die.

[MerchantOfMenace1]

@MichelAlioscha He wasn't crying because he was a coward or anything, he was simply angry to a point where he started crying, I mean, I've done that before. He was enraged from the fact that the man who made the crappy rocket were technically murdering him. And no, it wasn't state of the art, Soyuz1 was rushed, and Vladimir's friend, Yuri Gagarin found no less than 203 problems with the device, and because the USSR wouldn't listen to his pleas to fix that, that's how they killed Vladimir.

[MichelAlioscha]

@MerchantOfMenace1 Come on ... I don't think so. Cosmonauts are very well trained and selected. I've listened tapes from commercial flight crashes and you can see how the pilots struggle to solve issues and at some point just say good bye to the co-pilot, that's all. Komarov obviously knew that this could be a "Kamikaze" flight, but I honestly think that he and everyone else realized that only after the re-entry. And it was indeed state of the art, despite the Soyuz1 wasn't ready at all.

[MerchantOfMenace1]

@MichelAlioscha But you don't understand, Komarov knew the project would fail, both he and Yuri, who tried to go in for Komarov, 'cause if he didn't Komarov would die, though Komarov went in because Yuri was his replacement, so he'd die. They both knew it from the very beginning. And I'm confused with your definition of stat of the art, do you mean the Soyuz1 was made of modern material, though poorly constructed?

[teddysalad65]

@MichelAlioscha What is he lying about? This is an fair and honest video that shows nothing but respect for Komarov. It seems that you're denying that Komorov would even be emotional as his craft was plunging to the ground. You make no sense at all.

[cheesecarrot]

@teddysalad65 The myth about Komarov being heard crying with rage is well known to be untrue. His last official transmission was thanking the people on tje ground for their excellent work. The crying fit (emotional or otherwise) was thought to be heard by the chase planes even though the Soyuz was broadcasting over equipment vastly different from that of the planes (aka urban legend). The black box was lost in the crash and no other transmission followed.

Thats why this video is sensationalist.

[cheesecarrot]

@teddysalad65 It offers other due respect to Komarov… but still… no reason to add BS for effect.

[teddysalad65]

@cheesecarrot ...

It is not a myth. There are audio tapes of Kosygin talking to Komorov and Komorov is not a bit happy. I'll give you link to part of the conversation in a private message since YouTube will block the link here.

[cheesecarrot]

@teddysalad65 I'm aware of that sound clip. However, the majority of the modern argument for the clip comes from a book called Starman, particularly the source that described Komarov crying was Perry Fellwock, an NSA agent who's been known to lie before. You can read one of the authors of the book admitting to Fellwock's less than sound nature in a link I'll send you.

It's hard to tell for me since I speak the language, but I don't know why anyone would interpret his transmission as emotional.

[salawalde]

It's told that Gagarin tried to prevent that flight, 'cause the Sojuz was not yet ready to fly!!! But there was an upcoming soviet jubilee (50 years Soviet Union?) and the flight HAD to be done for the jubilee!!!

[LikaLaruku]

Yuri Gagarin wasn't the first man in space; he's just the first to return from it alive.

[LikaLaruku]

Read an article that said the USSR had a dog & 5 to 7 cosmonauts in space before the US got it's first astronaut up there. Problem is that all but one cosmonaut died & the dog suffocated.

[UndeadPizzaGuy]

@LikaLaruku Korolev would never allow such a risk to safety, additionally to state that an R7 could be launched in the most dangerous period of the cold war without anyone noticing is nothing short of ludicrous. The very fact that the USSR disclosed the deaths of Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11 destroys all credibility to the "lost cosmonauts" subject, even though the Soviets did not provide details on the failures of the two missions. Gagarin was first, and it is forever.

[b00tysmith]

classic COMMUNISM

[BOBSAGATification]

This man is a hero,he saved GARAGIAN,the first man to safely go into and leave space,Without even knowing it,he Permanately altered millions of peoples lives,in A way unimaginable,R.I.P Vladimir Komarov,

[MagnusRulerHardt]

Before: 1:52

After: 1:44

[Knepperify1]

Test pilots are unflappable, calm in all situations sorts of men.

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That he was yelling in a raised voice like that is more urgent than most people would react. It is the equivalent of screaming at the top of ones lungs, for normal folks.

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A nasty way to go, and likely just how the Challenger crew ended up when they impacted the Atlantic.

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Gravity is an unforgiving bitch.

[bulboder]

I'm honored because my surname is also Komarov. And is this story truth?

[lmf800]

The entire Soviet Space program was a sham...Sputnik was the only true mission, and Soviet Cosmonauts did not successfully go into space until 1968. This 'death' was to buy the deception a bit more time.Yuri Gregarin was a 'posterboy' who's 'flight' was done in a soundstage.

[IblameBlame]

@lmf800

All space programs are a sham. There is no such thing as space.

[JamspongeVideo]

@IblameBlame

Of course! Everything I know is wrong!

[neciey43]

@IblameBlame you son of a b@#$h

[IblameBlame]

@neciey43

:D

[niflap]

1:45)Is that his body? If he died by the parachutes failing, the craft should hve been slowed down below the speed of burning up on reentry, & he would have died by impact. Maybe there were still combustibles on board at timeof impact.

[ashandil]

@niflap Maybe so (your allusion to combustibles), but most sources on this incident talk about the speed of the impact having enough energy to turn his entire body to a molten state...

[UndeadPizzaGuy]

@niflap The Soyuz did indeed have combustibles onboard, and still does. Unlike US capsules, the Soyuz reentry module has retrorockets behind the heat shield which can be used to cushion the impact of landing; after the heat shield has first been jettisoned. Of course, the retro rockets firing wouldn't have changed a thing in this case.

[SantaRoma]

He was in Space! I'd take that any day!

[BladerDark1]

Настоящий мужчина - делал своё дело до последнего мига.

[lolcats121]

Could Uploader please buy the translations and put them in this video? They are on Amazon.

[murikami21]

he was my grandfather's cousin... (from my mother's side) :(

[jimos100]

@murikami21 Is that his body 1:45 are you remember him?

[zatch113]

@engaurd Oh, I believe the death would have been pretty instant upon impact.

[angelboy78]

May God bless your soul , Vladimir!

[whateverlolawants]

Wow, what a sad story. Although he was forced into the situation, it seems Vladimir Komarov was a brave man willing to protect his friend. Horrible that someone of such high personal character died in such a way. Thank you for telling his story.

[SunriseNYC]

hey young Russian guys and USA guys HELLO!

I wish you will ever understand the meaning of DUTY or meaning of to be proud of your country.

Thank you Mr. Vladimir Komarov for your investment in this great business what we call KOSMOS/Space these days!

We will always remember your names!

[BigUpsKonviction]

Coming up on the anniversary. Rest in peace comrade.

[macandrewes]

Komarov--A TRUE hero

[DJMikaelito]

Жалко..

[nikoskabbadias]

Heroes are the maskots of the wars for other peoples money and power.

[nikoskabbadias]

It wasnt a fight of communism and capitalism. It was a fight for power. And, besides Komarov, millions of others died for it. Americans, Russians, and many more from other countries, to which they organised civil wars or invaded. Thats why they named it Cold War. Its pretty cold using other countries to fight your war.Komarov wasnt a hero, and neither were the Americans that died in a similar way, or the people all over the world that died for Russia or America. Just victims.

[palmdaleJAWA]

Godspeed comrade...

[1Nekit1]

@palmdaleJAWA Oh, boy...

[karkyco]

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, SPACESHIP CRASH YOU!!!

[akafortes]

@karkyco not funny in this case...

[DJMikaelito]

@karkyco

idiot not funny at all.

[PyroGuideToHappiness]

@karkyco IN JAPAN EARTH ROCKS YOU

IN AMERICA PLANE CRASH YOU

IN HAITI EARTH ROCKS YOU

yeah these jokes are in absolute great taste

/sarcasm

that shit is not funny, he was literally molten upon reentry

so you shut the fuck up

[neilandrewporter]

is that his body at 1.45?

fuck me.

[spottydog4477]

@neilandrewporter yeah - holy shit what a way to end........

[Lloydy9101]

damn, this man is a hero!!!

he saved his friends!

he save his FRIEND, Yuri Gagarin

[Lloydy9101]

damn, this man is a hero!!!

he saved his friends!

[goonitary]

damn, could have gave some subtitles or something...

[BlueonGoldZ]

@goonitary if you read the details it states that many of the words were unrecognizable to both the Russians and Americans.

[goonitary]

@BlueonGoldZ I really didnt read the description because the first part seemed to be like a news article i had just read but its cool now... im sure all of us new in some sense what he was saying... and it wasnt pretty

[hadon272]

This man new he was doomed from the start and basically took one for the team..... He flew that mission knowing if he didnt, his friend and fellow brother would be picked for the job and gave his life so his friend didnt have to. This man is a hero!!! R.I.P.Vladimir Komarov......

[russiandoll87]

@hadon272 He left behind a wife and two young children. I don't think he took the flight to be a hero. I think he took it because he was forced to. Just like Gagarin was forced to keep his mouth shut about the 203 mechanical flaws on the spacecraft that made Komarov's mission fatal. No one dies a horrible, fiery death to be a hero. Just saying.

[hadon272]

@russiandoll87 "No one dies a horrible, fiery death to be a hero"? If you come out of your bubble you will see it every day as long as theres a war going on.....Least you can do is show respect because after all he did leave a wife and two young children behind........Just saying ;)

[98RamMagnum]

@hadon272 It's sad, the man who's life he technically saved, died less than a year afterwards.

[AzzurroVincerebbero]

@hadon272 and Gagarin died anyway in a test pilot accident . . .

[Thewoodchuckchucker]

@hadon272 Then his friend still had to fly >.> wtf do you think this is? A fucking prison sentence? He chose fly because that was his dream, because he wanted to carry science forward. The fuck kind of place do you think the USSR was?

[darkwriter77]

So, ummm ... what did he say, exactly? (For those of us that don't speak Russian.)

[souperhero13]

@darkwriter77 in an article they say that he said "It's heating up" and he cursed the engineers for creating a botched spaceship, and that he understood he was about to die.

[stripes5150]

His left solar array wouldn't deploy and he only had 15 or so amps on his main electrical buss....that sealed his fate....r.i.p

[LTF85199]

Thank you!

[nhoJzenithraM]

Harsh. Hard on the family as it was probably kept a state secret, At least they had a service.